Green turning red in watermelon politics

Piers Akerman

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Thursday,
December,
27,
2012,(5:36pm)

FACING falling support, the Greens are trying to find a different colour scheme to fool the voters.

They want to be seen as green but perhaps not as deep a green as their party policy platform paints them.

Their problem, of course, is that they are not really green as much as a murky red and even their hard-core support base is fracturing under the pressure of adjusting to the shrill leadership of Senator Christine Milne after 16 years of former Senator Bob Brown’s more avuncular style.

The delusional party is seeking to delude the electorate by reclassifying former core beliefs as “aims and principles”, according to reports in the Fairfax press.

The changes have not yet been made to the policies listed on the party’s website - doubtless the webmasters are still recovering from some Gaia-worshipping festivities deep in darker Tasmania where their solar-powered broadband is having difficulty.

But switching policies from the core belief column to the more general heading of aims would enable Green candidates to weasel their way around the direct confrontations which arose whenever such contentious policies as death duties were discussed.

The Fairfax press has certainly beaten the world to this scoop and has managed to even get ahead of its favoured party in outlining the planned changes.

The media organisation’s green-tinted coverage has raised eyebrows in the past, most recently when environment reporter Ben Cubby was challenged over his tweets about the appointment of a new chairman to the NSW Minerals Council and revealed that he had no idea of the different roles played by a chairman and a CEO within an organisation.

As Cubby tweeted: “What’s the difference? What do they do?”

And again, after an explanation was provided: “That makes perfect sense, thanks. Capitalists all look the same to me.”

And Greens, no matter how much they re-calibrate their policies to the less specific goals, aims or principles, will look much the same to the overwhelming majority of the electorate - unimpressive.

Despite the promises of green jobs to replace employment in mining and forestry critical to many rural communities in the island state, unemployment is now running at about 7 per cent - 2 per cent above the rest of the nation.

The communities could have had mining, forestry and green tourism jobs but the Greens killed off the major employers.

Senator Abetz said the Greens’ new attempt at deception would similarly fail.

After spending yesterday morning running the brush-cutter over his daughter’s property near Hobart, he told me that the Greens were trying to counter the greater scrutiny they had received as a result of their alliance with Labor - mainly in the Federal Parliament, but also in Tasmania and the ACT - which has caused a series of electoral setbacks at state, territory and local government level.

“The public has come to see that the Greens aren’t a group of benign environmentalists, but a hard left party intent on Marxist social engineering,” he said.

While they were attempting to airbrush policies like freezing funding for private schools, liberalising drug laws, abolishing the private health insurance rebate and imposing death duties, the same extreme impulses would always dictate Greens’ policies.

“When we have made a blunder, we admit it and dump the policy,” he said.

“The Greens aren’t repudiating their duds, they’re just trying to sweep them under the carpet where they hope they will be ignored. Their policies derive from Leftist ideological positions, with adverse consequences for jobs and society.

“This year the public has seen the result of the Greens’ carbon tax policy which has cost jobs and driven up electricity prices. It has also seen the disastrous results of the Greens ‘open door’ attitude to border protection, which has seen this government lose control of our borders to people smugglers.”

He said that cloaking their policies in generalities would not stop the Greens from being perceived as “loopy” or “extremist”, descriptions applied to them by their Labor allies.

Warming to his theme, Senator Abetz said many Greens including the former Communist Senator Lee Rhiannon, still supported the “vile” Boycotts Divestment Sanctions campaign against Israel and noted that the senator had still not fulfilled her promise of two years ago to post a detailed response to her ASIO file which revealed her contacts with the then KGB station chief in Australia

“The Greens will always be ‘watermelons’ - Green on the outside and red inside - no matter how they cloak their policies,” he said.

“The Greens need to actually repudiate their extremist policies before people will believe they’ve changed. Deciding simply not to talk about them simply will not wash.”

Much like the green protesters who prefer to send jobs offshore to Third World nations rather than build sustainable industries in Australia.

The reason for this claim stems from the fact the water in Tasmania lacks Iodine. This lack of iodine in growing bodies leads to the development of Giotre’s. This is a swelling of the thyroid gland as located in the neck.

Tasmania recognised this and for over 70 years has ensured that iodine has been included in a variety of products from milk and bread to salt.

It is only the johnny-come-lately mainlanders that have just included iodine as a requirement of publicly availible bread.

Tassie was also the first state in our country to insist all drinking water was flouridated to ensure better public dental health.

Lastly, Tassie is travelling away from the Australia at a rate of around 1mm per year. The only reason that it has not spiralled away completely is because.......the mainland sucks!

Winjan replied to Amazing Scenes
Thu 27 Dec 12 (10:49pm)

It’s in the hands of the two parties where the Greens end up. The coalition have indicated that the Greens will be put last on preferentials.

It’s now up to the ALP to determine whether they will play funny buggers or not. Should they continue with the status quo, it will indicate their lack of confidence in themselves as a force to be reckoned with & tell all that they are infact a coalition of the Greens mandate.

Campbell Newman’s polls are to be expected, another term of Labor will put Oz on par with Greece. Except, Greece doesen’t give taxpayers cash away to every other Nation. At least their irresponsibility was at home looking after their own.

Not this lot! Can’t wait for Julia"s Carr to strut the world stage in 2013 handing out hard working taxpayers cash while accumulating $260 billion dollars in ofshore debt. Most of it from China while given the ok for the Ord river food bowl to China as a thank you.

Craig Emerson thinks this is beaut! The man is a disgrace and should turn his Swiss bank account pockets out under the same hearing as craig Thompson. The man hyperventilates at the very suggestion there is a limit to China’s sovereign take over of Australian assetts by a communist country. Is anybody listening?

Ozrealist replied to Amazing Scenes
Thu 27 Dec 12 (11:03pm)

2 heads and judging by their electoral voting, not a single brain amongst them.

Winjan replied to Amazing Scenes
Thu 27 Dec 12 (11:50pm)

Most would be laughing at the other side of their sad concrete & traffic ridden dwellings if this wasn’t so serious.Tasmania is the last decent heritage we will all see before China & other hedge funds rip the guts out of this pristine wilderness. That is why I go there as often as possible. It isn’t another place matey’s, it’s another world.

Australia’s mainland is an enormous continent with riches beyond most other countries dreams. This country is going to be as big in finance & stature in the forthcoming millenium as the United States of America. It’s far too young to be socialist, communist, Greens or anything else that dreamers of the Russian revolution have to add while soking up the spoils of a good life.

Whatever we do, or wherever we go, leave tasmania alone. Get rid of the Greens, but leave Tasmania alone.

boadica replied to Amazing Scenes
Fri 28 Dec 12 (07:09am)

I lived in Tassie for 10 years, and it is indeed a beautiful place. However, sometimes you have to progress, and I found that in Tasmania “progress” is an unknown word. I lived in Bicheno, an absolutely beautifull spot. I hear that since the Greenie Cameron woman moved there the whole town has more or less come to a complete standstill, with premises that once were going concerns abandoned. From all accounts she has bought up quite a lot of the place and decided that commerce is a no no. Bicheno is up for sale (I am told, but not many buyers). What a shame, could have been, with the right management, a jewel in the crown of Tasmania. Do we want Australia as a whole ending up in the same position ? Don’t think so ?

Tony b replied to Amazing Scenes
Fri 28 Dec 12 (08:56am)

A happy little debunker,

Thanks for that, very informative.
Can we now throw out the suggestion of all forms of interbreeding then?
And get rid of that one big (happy #^^%*!~) family, label?

Just what do they do in “them thar hills” then?
It’s obviously not “work.”

mike of the shire replied to Amazing Scenes
Fri 28 Dec 12 (10:58am)

boadica, spot on. Bicheno is a top location. Should be a real tourist attraction. Shame to hear it’s going backwards.

rossco replied to Amazing Scenes
Fri 28 Dec 12 (11:52am)

Thanks for the heads-up about iodine Debunker, and here I was all these years thinking the two head jokes referred to unnatural associations with first cousins.

DT replied to Amazing Scenes
Fri 28 Dec 12 (12:03pm)

AS I like Tasmania as a holiday destination but the signs of economic decay are everywhere, without subsidy from the mainland taxpayers it would be a basket case, sadly, a perfect example of extremism Green. Travelling by Spirit of Tasmania car ferry twice in the last three years my vehicle was inspected on the Melbourne departure wharf by security people before I drove it aboard. In Devonport after an overnight voyage vehicles were held up as a small army of government employees positioned them into several lines before moving slowly forward to more security checking. I mentioned to an officer that the ship had not stopped between ports but she was not amused. A local businessman told me that the job creation was indicative of the problems and what Tasmanians must put up with. Sadly real jobs and related real taxes should have been created but Greenism knows best.

Mike replied to Amazing Scenes
Sat 29 Dec 12 (07:29am)

Winjan, the Labor of today will always go with the Greens, as that is the only way they can fulfill their communist idealogy. Gillard & Co, every now and then, will pretend that they are not one and the same. But the are fundamentally connected at the head, and need each other to impliment their socialist/communist policies.

The Greens are a problem, but the real problem is the Fabian Gillard, her entourage and her union supporters, and the ever so quite Queenmaker, Paul Howes. Communism is their game, and if we don’t act soon they’ll be ruling this Country indefinitely.

2013 is the year we slay the Green/Labor/Union ‘Monster’, and 2013 is the year that we discard our close enconter with Gillards long awaited desire to lead a Communist Australia.

Our Happy New Year will finally come with the Annihalation of the ‘Monster’, and boy, it can’t come soon enough.

Greens replied to Amazing Scenes
Sat 29 Dec 12 (10:33am)

Look out Julia and Tony, Malcolm is coming to get you both.

Paleocon replied to Amazing Scenes
Sat 29 Dec 12 (11:28am)

Tasmania where one man one vote isn’t the rule,it must be the two-headed thing that they get more Senators and MP’s than the rest of the nation per capitia.

The Northern Territory has more relevance to Australia than Tassie,so why is it over weighted,and why does such a place have such a large input to our political structure,unless they are going by the old adage.......
."One day the brain and heart were arguing who was the boss of the body,then the liver quipped in that he should be boss and the kidneys got cross at that as well then the arsehole said what about him and the rest of the body parts laughed,the arsehole said righto I’m going on strike,well after two weeks,the kidneys were screaming the liver was crying the eyes were crossed,the brain was foggy and the heart was stodgy,they all then said that the arsehole was boss......so you see you don’t have to be smart or much use to be in power,just be an arsehole.

taxpayer nsw replied to Amazing Scenes
Sat 29 Dec 12 (05:51pm)

Tasmania has the same number of Senators - 12 Senators - as every other much bigger States with much larger, diverse populations - such as NSW, Victoria, Queensland, WA, SA.

I think taxpayers are being ripped off, paying the salaries and all the lurks and perks - fly in/fly out - 12 people from Tasmania to sit in the Senate in Canberra. BTW - on top of their salaries they then get extra as committee members.

Australia is one of the very few countries in the world with more politicians per head of population then many other countries.

No surprises but nicely put Piers. The Greens have been the “grinch “of australia for the past 3 years ( look at the borders!!!)-- they are dangerous on every level and need to be dessimated at the next election. Sadly, the latte luvvies will still put them back in to the senate!!! I am so sick and nervous about 2013 election-- if this lot and Gillards poisonous mob get in again pity help Australia!!

Sandra, Gillard won’t get back in but she’ll create devastation on her way out. Fasten your seat belt and take your anti-nausea medication. I fear we’re in for a rocky ride! The Queen of Sick is coming to an airwave near you!

GetOut replied to sandra
Thu 27 Dec 12 (08:34pm)

If Gillard and the Greens get back in it won’t be pity help Australia because as a nation we will be totally beyond help.

According to Monash University Professor Lucas Walsh in a story by Phil Jacob today’s Telegraph, youth unemployment is already nearly 20% so you can imagine what the numbers would be after another term of Gillard and the Greens.

Add to that another few years of open borders and we will all be looking for help as the unsustainable costs of these illegals cannot be met by fewer taxpayers. It will make death duties an attractive income stream for the world’s greatest treasurer and only encourage the minority Greens to make more and more unrealistic demands in their quest for an unsustainable utopia.

Stuart.W replied to sandra
Fri 28 Dec 12 (07:20am)

Sandra, I’m more worried about electoral fraud. Getup have been busy procuring votes, in 2010 they got 100,000 voters registered 10 days before the election. Now it’s reported they’ve got a million and a half votes in their hip pocket.

Proud Aussie migrant replied to sandra
Fri 28 Dec 12 (01:00pm)

I’m worried too Sandra.

This catastrophe is not over by any means.

Just look at the US - Obama should never have been elected for a second term.

Watch him go berserk over the next four years. More taxes, more entitlement, more socialism, amnesty for illegal immigrants, open borders, more contempt of the electorate as a whole, more abuse of the constitution and the conventions of government. This guy hasn’t started yet.

And Gillard, the Watermelons and the prostituted independents are of the same cloth. And copying the Democratic strategy.

Have we as a nation reached the tipping point whereby there is no return from their corrupt and cancerous ways?

Have we got enough thoughtful voters or are too many compromised and beholden?

I am worried sick Sandra.

I have seen this all before and it ain’t looking good.

Tony b replied to sandra
Fri 28 Dec 12 (01:47pm)

Maybe the UN will chip in a few bucks to help out an old mate.
They could borrow it from China using our Credit Card.
Less a commission, of course.

Once the Liberals get in, maybe they could legislate how much any future Government could borrow. If the ALP can tie up the CO2 Tax so that it can’t be unravelled (so they say) surely the Liberals could do the same with our borrowings.

What right have the ALP got to keep borrowing money without ever having a hope of paying it back?
None, I’d say!

owl replied to sandra
Sun 30 Dec 12 (01:14am)

The 2013 election should be no problem for Gillard and her trade union mates in Govt.

After all, the AEC works closely with the trade unions by helping them with their elections for trade union officials and leaders. Do taxpayers pay for trade union elections conducted by AEC?

What is the AEC doing about illegal, multiple voting at different booths? Identity checks before voting?

If the High Court, in 2010, allowed GetUp to vote by internet instead of using lead pencils and paper, surely the same rule should apply to all voters.

The 2010 election result took 17 days to come up with the result - thanks to the 3 stooges Windsor-Oakeshott-Katter. Is this good enough in the 21st Century when 3 nobodies held the country to ransom?

BTW - how much has it cost taxpayers for Independents Windsor & Oakeshott to give their vote to Julia Gillard to move into The Lodge/Kirribilli House with her boyfriend?

Maybe the leadership is a problem for them more than they admit. Leaders have to have some charisma these days.

Perhaps Sarah H-Y or adam Bandt may appeal to their young Greenie type followers more?

With all his faults Bob Brown was for over ten years the de facto leader of the opposition in our national parliament, and that without even being in the house of reps. Such leaders don’t come around every day.

Such a leader Christine Milne is not.

During all of that time the ALP were hopelessly ineffectual, while for most of that time the Greens held the balance of power in the senate.

Yet after just one year of a new construction of lies the ALP picked itself up to regain and retain government.

Eric Abetz should have observed a very long time ago that not only are the Greens a hard left party intent on Marxist social engineering, but so also is the ALP. Right back to Hawke and Whitlam.

As for the Greens changing their tune. We still remember that “there will be no carbon tax under a government I lead”. The carbon tax was Greens policy, and Julia did it for them.

BillK replied to candy
Fri 28 Dec 12 (08:32am)

candy it will be interesting to see how the Greens fare at the election, particularly since Bob Brown retired.

I don’t think Milne has the same presence or “avuncular” aura, and the Greens will loose a lot of ground. Milne is not well liked and this will reflect in their numbers. Communist Lee Rhiannon and Sarah Hyphen-Young are also on the nose, so their numbers can only sink.

The Greens probably peaked some time ago under Brown, and we can only hope it’s down hill from here. Once a “popular” leader leaves, the party often flounders. Not unlike Don Chipp and the Democrats.

Brian of Perth replied to candy
Fri 28 Dec 12 (09:51am)

The greatest news i’ve heard lately Candy,is the fact that support is on the decline for the Greens.When you mention
Hanson-Young as I leader I simply cringe in disbelief.
As for the sniveling Bandt--You can have him.The Greens have finally been held to account and,"Whoa! I don’t like it” raises its head.They have joined forces with Gillard to stop feedom of speech whereby,people like me ( A proud Lib ),can not say anything against them or their party.Slander Abbott and the Libs
---No worries Mate!!

DT replied to candy
Fri 28 Dec 12 (12:10pm)

Farmer Ted the carbon tax lie will long be remembered, and is now adding $9 in every $100 (9%) to electricity bills for consumers including the suppliers to end consumers who pass the cost on with a profit margin. The real impact of carbon tax is yet to be fully accounted.

Bandt (acting leader) was interviewed and pointed to Big Business to be more accountable for the costings of green policies.Once again, someone else to squeeze more for their hair brained,loopy ideas.Dangerous people.

Interesting how the “Greens” emulate their political bedfellows and act to decieve the electorate with blatant lies and half truths to conceal their real agenda.
Sorry guys, like all bad poker players, these two political parties have overplayed the bluff way too many times. Anyone with an IQ above room temperature will recognise the duplicity of these Marxist groups and vote accordingly.
The jig is up...people have woken up to the lies.

Mandrake - like an ageing magician - the ALP/Greens have worn out most of their ‘cards’.

The race card got worn out a few years ago (well overdue) and the sexist card is being used now - but the cracks are already appearing on this one.
The economic credentials card was merely an illusion.
Only ALP leaning economists and the MSM clap their hands to this trick (a trick that a reasonably intelligent 12 year old can see through).

Time to get off the stage and retire.

maurie replied to Mandrake
Thu 27 Dec 12 (10:40pm)

Mandrake of O & eternal damnation, they haven’t quite reached their target demographics yet but by welcoming fair paying illegal immigrants
in the thousands their hope of reaching the tipping point of enough voters dependent on an ALP type government coupled with the brainwashed recent school leavers provided by the ever compliant education system their dream of centralized government will almost see them fall back into power, but just in case there aren’t enough naive & gullible idiots to get them in again the goose is gleefully
destroying our nations economy to the extend that the current opposition would barely last one term. The self entitled bunch simply have absolutely no interest in the welfare of our nation. Just like that idiot in the US these mongrels are only interested the ‘so many time through history proven to fail’ command economy which they politely fool themselves with the name of socialism rather than
the true name of Communism. If the republicans in the US don’t lose their nerve that once powerful nation will be saved but Australia
sadly doesn’t have any backup & is simply in the hands of utter selfish idiots!

ChisX replied to Mandrake
Fri 28 Dec 12 (03:29am)

Damnation: Agree totally. Once the cards are played they can never again be used. Gillard has removed the glass ceiling card although the fembots have not worked that out yet. As if there ever was a glass ceiling - Every business owner I know hires the best person they can get for a job....It’s all about the money not the chromosomes. @

Obama’s election (particularly for a second term) is very good for African American’s but not for the reasons they may think. If the perception that external circumstances are responsible for their problems then that perception’s removal should lead to some much needed introspection. Sort of FACT trumping RACE for once.

DT replied to Mandrake
Fri 28 Dec 12 (12:06pm)

Mandrake I suspect that the liars and deceivers listen only to their spin doctors and even they are unaware that most Australians can detect BS and now have.

Years ago, as a younger man, I lived in Africa in several countries, over about 20 years.

None of those countries had a Centrelink, or access to no-work benefits, such as dole, etc.

So everyone had to get a job, or do something like grow or farm your own food, or starve.

I have noticed, that no such party as the ‘Greens’ ever existed in such places. They did not exist then, they do not exist there now. They cannot survive there, they could never even start up there.

The Greens rely on “Entitlements” from the Government Purse to survive. That is, taxpayers such as you and I subsidise them through Unemployment Benefits, or Public
Service Inducements (I believe the term is ‘snouts in the Trough’).

They don’t work, or make anything productive for the Community. They are the Cuckoos in the Nest, the Parasites feeding off the Public Host, called the Taxpayer.

As a result of that, their policies are ‘no- policies’ and are policies of Deception. They entice and feed on the ignorant.

What that means in short, is that our Economy cannot afford the Greens, especially after the Economic Vandalism wraught by the Incomptetent Swan.

They are a bunch of bludgers and extortionists, and are no good to anybody.

The Greens want wind power etc. those forms of energy production ceased centuries ago, for good reason. Modern forms are more effective.

Secondly, what you point out is adaptation. Good people adapt. Defunct people don’t. You point out how people adapt. Nowhere, in your examples have Greens adapted. The ultimate hypocrisy, they cannot adapt to nature, they are not sustainable.

Green, red or vomit-coloured, Labor and the Greens are the best at spin. They talk rubbish with a straight face. It works a treat on the press monkeys in Canberra. It’s not even 2013 and the games have begun. Tony Abbott better get ready!

you seem bitter and perhapsand dare I suggest unhappy with your lot Killing them etc—I for one think (a) we are well off (b) we are well off becuase of our vibrant political system - a mix of green, alp and coalition policies over decades and (c) a free (but currently distractable) media; So chin up KTSWMV - life is rich life is good - so sing polly wolly doodle all the day - as I do!

You can tell the brain dead idiots a mile away. For one they don’t even know what a capital letter is but they want to give you their narrow minded and delusional opinion.
Well done Kym you just showed the world how completely stupid you are.

In the Howard years greens collected truckloads of cash in the name of conservation.
I don’t remember the last time i saw a green collector on the street.
Greens are communists hiding behind conservation.
Labor and the unions are also communists.
Communists would be upfront if they stood for what the worker wanted.

I believe Jon Howard who always and forever had, and has,
the best interests of the nation as his No1 priority.

Farmer Ted. replied to What a waste
Fri 28 Dec 12 (03:17am)

The days are long gone when communists had any connection with workers. Modern communists are bookworms only, driven by envy, cynicism and hate.

b replied to What a waste
Fri 28 Dec 12 (07:41am)

Farmer Ted (3.17am) A senior member of the CPA made the following observation in the late 1940s.....

“It is usually asserted that our organization (the Communist Party) exists to advance the interests of the working class, when in reality the working class exists to advance the interests of our organization”.

That this is the case is very easy to prove since members of the “inner party” were always very well heeled and living high on the hog whilst the rank and file got absolutely nothing out of the deal. This was so in the now-defunct East European Communist States, and is still so in places like Nth Korea and Cuba.

The Greens in Australia (and elsewhere) are no different to their Communist Predecessors. Whilst the masses are expected to pay more for everything, and to therefore consume less, Green MPs and operatives are usually multi-millionaires being paid big-bucks....which they then use to far out-consume the masses they gleefully impoverish.

Put simply, it’s “Do as I say, not as I do”. Or “All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others”, Cheers.

BillK replied to What a waste
Fri 28 Dec 12 (08:06am)

Excatly Farmer Ted, and you have just described the Glorious Comrades trying to be leaders of the Labor Party.

Boiler Service replied to What a waste
Fri 28 Dec 12 (01:17pm)

One other place they get dough is the CFMEU, amazingly stange bedfellows youd think.

We Australian tax payers need to understand the agenda of these corrupt pollies, this is the UK all over again, letting in thousands of illigal imigrants who in time will be given the vote and they will vote Labor.

Personally I dont care about the Greens, next election they will be wiped out, we need to ensure Labor are never allowed to spin this communist crap ever again.

Wotif and any other website they own for air,accom and touring give Greens the money. there are a few other surprises out there too.

Maybe they all should be named......................

As for Abetz , a good man for the Liberals.

“Capitalists all look the same to me.”

What a revealing and disturbing insight into the shrivelled, warped mind of a greenie. The irony here is that capitalism, by its very nature, promotes diversity, free-thinking, choice and difference. The Marxist-Green Party want to impose uniformity, group-think, limited choice and sameness. If they had things their way Australia would look like a bad parody of 1960’s China with everyone wearing green or blue hemp-made uniforms, chanting mantras from the Little Green Book (made from 100% recycled paper) and eating nowt but greens morning, noon and night.

Even more disturbing is that this fool is allowed a voice in a national broadsheet to preach his ignorance to an even more ignorant 10%.

@bencubby do you condemn the calls by warmists for the state sponsored murder of #climate skeptics? #auspol

25 DecBen Cubby?@bencubby

@SirLiberal no they should definitely be wiped out

If Fairfax doesn’t condone such homicidal extremism, he would have been censured; he wasn’t.

Many thanks for up-dating us on the water melon Greens who have been damaging us for many years. Especially as they have mostly a dark side and it is kept well hidden. Much more needs to be said by most media, instead of the rare few. An interesting article in the Australian today describing how a “ green “ influence did much serious damage to our productivity, commencing about 40 years ago.
One of the first communists to go green

I cannot see how the Greens policies are workable. They put little focus on actual green issues and a lot on extreme loopy social issues.

I cannot see how uncontrolled immigration from extreme cultures (by stripping border controls) is beneficial to Australia. Likewise I cannot see how allowing a youth unemployment rate of 20% is beneficial to us (by taxing productive businesses out of Australia).

But then of course - the Greens are only thinking what is good for the UN or for what is good for the shadowy World Government. Not what is good for Australia.

As for a ‘greens job’ - I hope in the future our kids (when they grow up) will be able to do something more than make wind chimes, make hemp clothing or grow vegetables in a collective farm.

ED.

ChrisX replied to PeterMax
Fri 28 Dec 12 (03:37am)

The greens and communists were always buddies. However, they did not really get along till the crash of communism. Once all their economic crap was proven to be useless they had nowhere to run until they found the green movement. The green movement is just a mechanism for these inept weaklings to find relevance again. Remember, your average Socialist - Keynesian - Green is a coward at heart who can only operate through others.

DT replied to PeterMax
Fri 28 Dec 12 (12:18pm)

Peter Max you may recall an interview conducted with Peter Costello after he returned this year from a Europe trip, he mentioned that he had met with a former German minister for foreign affairs and Green who apparently indicated to Costello that the Australian Greens are way out there to the left and far more extreme than even international Green movement elsewhere. In my opinion the extreme Australian Greens are using environment as cover for their totalitarian objectives. A combination of green tape and union movement manipulations have held back our national prosperity potential for a very long time and the changes back to the past of inductrial relations law by Gillard is also very worrying.

The Greens and Labor have already taken
the chainsaw to Australia fully intending to leave a scorched
earth as their legacy to the nation for Tony Abbott his government and the Australian people to deal with.

So great is their incandescent hatred of Tony Abbott and
of course Australia.

Wonder what the Gillard led cabal is plotting for Australia
Day 2013 ?

We await, braced, for the next attack due on 26th January.

Paul replied to grumpy
Fri 28 Dec 12 (08:04am)

“just reading this article makes me want to start up the chainsaw”, LOVE IT! And you gotta love Abetz out there with the ‘brushcutter’, go for it Eric.

GB replied to grumpy
Fri 28 Dec 12 (09:56am)

Yes Davo I have been wondering what Gillard McTernan
have planned for Australia Day this year.

One things for sure the cabal will not miss an opportunity
to mess with Tony Abbotts mind and therefore the mind
of the nation especially in view of Labors intention to fight
the 2013 election on a gender war hoping to divert the voters
attention from the shambles they’ve created and which they
refuse to address with any seriousness....border security
international people smugglers and their cargo for instance.

wingnut replied to grumpy
Fri 28 Dec 12 (01:29pm)

I wouldnt be suprised if gillard doesnt return from holidays to face the music,she is soon to lose the protection of the PMs office and she knows it,disgrace and possibly jail await her here at home.she may decide to get while the gettings good ,no Chinese submarine for gillard though,she simply wouldnt fit through the hatch,Though I hear the chinese are building their first aircraft carrier,suss,very suss.

The true sinister agenda behind what the commonsense
brigade regarded as merely the lunatic fringe.....the Greens..
just another wacky tree hugging arm of Labor.

Such a pity the Greens have been the alternative favourite of
some traditional Liberal voters who decided they no
longer liked the Libs under the great John Howard and would
never consider Labor. This was some years ago prior to
the 2007 election. I don;t know what or who changed their minds ....I’d like to.

Frankly I was rended speechless for once by the about face
voting intentions the Liberal Party deserters.....I told them the
Greens were another arm of Labor.....but they didn’t
want to know and appeared not to give a damn..becoming
angry when I pointed out Labor/Greens are one and the same.....and storming off in a funk.

The Greens have been found out for what they, namely an organisation of lunatics, with lunatic policies. Now they are trying to tame their lunatic image. Remember the green mayor for Marrickville wanted to boycott Israel and any product from Israel. These are the same people that had fuel in forests protected so that bushfires now occur everywhere and burn out of control. These are the same trolls that want us to go back and live in caves. Better still get rid of humankind, they are a blight on the planet. The fact is Ms. Christine Milne is as popular as a pork chop in a Synagogue. The damage already done by the greens have set back Australia a long way. Remember they dictated their looney policies to Ms Gillard, and she obliged to stay in power. It would be a good thing if the greens ceased to exist, full stop.

Lennie, do you think there is a problem with in-breeding in Tasmania? It is a lovely island to visit, with such a History of Convict antecedents etc. but we found that the people had to survive on tourism. Bob Brown managed to take a hefty slice of the taxpayers money though...$10 billion and I wonder what they did with all that cash....new hospitals, education or industry? Milne should be asked to show where OUR MONEY was used. Unless it was just a SLUSH FUND, for the GREENS !

lennie sparks replied to lennie sparks
Fri 28 Dec 12 (03:18pm)

P.J. It is unwritten and unspoken knowledge that inbreeding is a problem there. I mean look at the two prize turkeys we have, namely Bob Brown and Christine Milne. Let’s face it there would have to be something seriously wrong with the genetic makeup to produce two drongo’s like them. The greens are trying to disguise their wacko ideas, because they KNOW, come election time the public will sort that lot out. Don’t be fooled by their softened image, they are still the dangerous loonies underneath. But also remember the red witch that bowed and kissed their feet to stay in power with her handbag.

After their little Carbon Tax extortion, the Greens must be about as popular as a Marrickville Mayor at the Israel Trade Commission.

What has your internal polling told you?. It is far too late. You will be decimated and deservedly so. You have not made one positive contribution to Australian life. Always the extremists with loopy ideas.

There are going to be some changes made in 2013. The clowns are going to be thrown out of the circus and life will return to normal.

The farce and the theatrical melodrama of Parliament will come to a halt because the people are at last going to have their say.

a beautiful descriptor-the Gangreen parrty- everything they vouch for is poisonous to our achieved lifestyle

a contempt or technological achievements that have freed us from the drudgery of everyday survival

a scowling disbelief in the Christian Faith and its loving Values/ disrespect for man+woman/ Marriage as the prime building block of a healthy and sustaining Society..legalize drugs?

a core belief of a False Truth that c02=poison and man regulates the Weather????????...already billions of tax$ spent on a problem that never existed......

and the poor/hungry/sick/and those crying for our help are ignored as the parasites suck on the tax$fest....because of the ggreens..even the libs have stupidly bent to accomadate this insane c02 issue and spend 10bill…

Well I have not forgotten when Lee a name i cant spell told me via email if the greens were represented on gosford city council she could perhaps help. Well Senator Lee R. I am happy to write I did not hold my breath!!! Edward James

Would be interesting to know the number of Tasmanian students who graduate from Year 12 compared with the mainland states.???

I saw Bob Brown in Melbourne a few months ago. Heavily tanned ( obviously not concerned with global warming) he looked dazed as he walked down Collins Street. I confess to feeling a little offended when he refused to acknowledge my salutation of: “Bloody Half-wit”. But then, what would you expect from someone more in touch with Martians.

Or maybe he knows as John Howard told us some years
ago-
“The Greens have peaked”

Brown may not wish to be part of a downward spiral to
political oblivion.

Wonder if he’s delighted with what the Greens have done
to Australia.....does Brown harbour hatred of us as Gillard
Labor does...and do all they can to destroy our prosperous
peace and freedom loving freedom of speech democracy.

John Jay replied to Warren
Thu 27 Dec 12 (10:50pm)

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To Warren -

He has always looked dazed .. a consciousness permanently anchored in unreality can only create an abnormal demeanour .. this being more conspicuous over time.

John Jay.

mike of the shire replied to Warren
Thu 27 Dec 12 (11:54pm)

Tanning salon. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

P.J. replied to Warren
Fri 28 Dec 12 (09:52am)

Mike, DOCTOR BROWN, should know the dangers associated with tanning parlours! I wonder why he is in Melbourne and not enjoying his retirement on his lovely Green island? Perhaps he had to get away from Milne...she is a crazy lady!

mike of the shire replied to Warren
Fri 28 Dec 12 (11:49am)

True P.J. Brown was bad but Milne is off the scale.

Excellent composite, yet again Piers.Mr Abetz is onto them alright.

Fancy wasting 600k to basically conceal millions in frittered away health funding? How utterly obscene..
No wonder the nations hundreds of billions in debt.
They deserve to lose support and funding,for letting down so many .
They either blamed nature itself or emotionally predate , rather than admit the truth and allow humans to evolve and adapt rationally and naturally.More control freaks without true purpose.They could not get conservation more wrong if they `tried`.There is no point in conserving nature if it kills people it`s that simple really.
They still hide their treasury costings I understand. Is that due to shame of their exclusively expensive failures?
Pfft preserving `their` own conditions for themselves rather than nature or anyone else.
What is the point in green office jobs for themselves but no paid jobs for creating revenue and progress to actually fund workable solutions, so humans could adapt??
Boy will they regret their outlandish greedy (even inhumane )decisions.
So..now they want to distance themselves, from what ... their own guilty image?
Ms Clumsy / Sloppy?
Distance themselves from owning their own failure?
Well it`s a bit late when they have no contingency for basic health principles they should have had in place well before insisting on unfettered boat seekers that now places humans at major undue risk ,as does the Co2 Tax ,due to detrimental financial losses.Their own insistence has created a massive drain on Australian society.
They assist in creating massive poverty strain on humans, rather than alleviating stress or creating paid work and revenue to fund even `their` jobs.
Greens =Backfire.What a shame , all in the name of selfish socialism.They could not be more wrong imo.
They could have really done so very much, but they are much too self important.Much too afraid of the lateral , or too lazy to wrap their heads around professional solutions.
They remind me of the see owners, what they see they `think ` they own.But of course that never applies to what they themselves own , they are exempt.
Too proud to admit they were indeed wrong.

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Piers has been one of The Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph's best-read columnists since 1993. One of the nation's most respected journalists he has worked in New York, London, Washington and Los Angeles. He lives in Sydney with his wife and two daughters and enjoys a wide range of activities.